Athletics

Falcon weekend preview, nine teams scheduled for competition

Sep 13, 2013

MEQUON, Wis.
– A busy weekend is ahead in Concordia University
Wisconsin athletics as nine teams are scheduled to compete between
Friday and Sunday. It is Homecoming weekend on the campus of CUW
and four teams are scheduled for home events. Football will host
Macalester College on Saturday, while the Men's and Women's Cross
Country teams will be hosting the 22nd annual Falcon Invitational.
Men's Soccer will be playing their home opener against University
of St. Thomas Sunday.

The football Homecoming matchup
against Macalester will highlight the weekend in Falcons athletics.
CUW is looking to rebound from a 51-17 defeat against Augsburg in
the season opener. Last year the Falcons dropped a 17-13 matchup
against the Scots, despite 104 receiving yards and two touchdowns
from wide receiver Garrett Wenzelburger (Hartland, Wis.).

Volleyball kicks the weekend off by
competing in the Pizza Hut Classic on Friday and Saturday on the
campus of UW-Oshkosh. The Falcons will be challenged at the event,
as they take on a 2012 NCAA Tournament qualifier in UW-Stevens
Point, while also taking on UW-Oshkosh, Martin Luther College and
St. Norbert College. The four teams CUW will be matched up against
combined for a 89-48 record last season.

Men's Golf will also be in action
as they compete in the two-day Tim Kopka Memorial Tournament at the
Randall Oaks Country Club in Dundee, Ill. The Falcons are playing
for the third-consecutive weekend, as they continue to gear up for
the first two rounds of the Northern Athletics Collegiate
Conference Championship, which are scheduled for next month.

Women's Golf is back in action this
weekend at the Benedictine University Invite on Saturday and
Sunday. The Falcons did not compete last weekend after opening
their season two weekends ago at the Carthage College Tournament on
the Border. The Falcons averaged a 382.7, which is the best in the
NACC this season, nearly 17 strokes ahead of the next closest
team.

Women's Soccer will renew its
annual meeting with St. Norbert College this weekend and in the
process will be looking for its fifth straight win over the Green
Knights. Last season, CUW edged St. Norbert on an own goal at the
84:54 mark, earning a 2-1 victory. All three goals of last season's
match were scored in the final 17:23.

Men's and Women's Cross Country
will be running in its home meet this weekend as they compete in
the Falcon Invitational. It will be the first time CUW competes in
6K (women) and 8K (men) meets this season. The women's race is set
for 11 a.m. and the men are set to follow at noon.

Women's Tennis will look to
continue its winning ways Saturday with a pair of NACC dual
matches. The Falcons will take on fellow conference unbeaten foe
Edgewood College at 10 a.m. in a matchup that could determine the
conference regular season champion. CUW will then battle Rockford
College at 2 p.m.

Concluding the weekend slate will
be the Men's Soccer team on Sunday afternoon. CUW will host the
University of St. Thomas in its home opener at 1 p.m. at Fitting
Field. The Falcons have posted three-consecutive shutouts and have
allowed just one goal in four matches this season, while the
Tommies counter with a strong offensive unit, having scored 10
times in their first four matches.